Search for a Bone Marrow Donor on 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition' (VIDEO)

Not only were they building a new home for the Gomez family, they were also looking for a suitable bone marrow donor to give new life to son Jonah, who suffers from a rare blood disorder.

Before a soccer match in Pasadena, Calif. Pennington asked the crowd -- and viewers at home -- to step up and register as bone marrow donors.

As mom Jessica looked on in tears it was revealed that Major League Soccer was mounting registration drives at games all across the country at the same time to try to find a match for Jonah. Here's hoping a donor will be found in time.

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I don't think many have any idea of the cost of a bone marrow transplant, the number of tests that need to be done for both the donor and the recipient, and the length of hospital stay before the recipient is evern able to leave. At which point, the medical costs continue to rise. And some insurances pay...but a percentage. When you're talking $20,000 and UP, that can "break" you even if you are employed. Everyone should do his homework and find out a little about this potentially life-saving procedure...and become a potential donor!Char

I just want to mention that ABC is one of the few stations that I watch but don't complain about having too many commercials. That's where they get the revenue that enables them to support shows like Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.

I have problems watching the show because they tend to way over do it. However, for the first time they seemed to have cut back a little, The house which is still larger then needed is still not way over done. There is a full basement for Jonah to play small games of soccer. What this article failed to mention is that not only does he have ONE rare blood disorder he has TWO. And is supposed to be the only human alive with both disorders. But here is the really great thing that EHME did, they built a smaller house living area, bed room, kitchen and bath as rental property for the Gomez family to help offset medical cost and so forth. SO in this case they did good . Nuff said!

i use to watch this show but some of the sobbing storey's were to much and then i also wondered if they were to poor to fix up what they or to live any better , then how was they going to be able to keep the new bills paid in their new digs. just wondering

Don't you think the families they help are well vetted beforehand? Of course they are -- it definitely would not be good publicity for ABC to put people in a house and help them, only to have the family lose the house because they couldn't afford the upkeep. And if you really paid attention, you'd realize the houses were donated by the builders and very often a lot of money was also donated for upkeep for quite some time.